Lisa Mink

Dell’s Diversity Leaderon Building Racial andGender Diversity in IT

BY JOY BUCHANAN

Dell made its entry onto The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list his year at No. 30, but the company faces the significant challenge of promoting and
recruiting Blacks, Latinos and women in an
industry where the pipeline for that talent is
narrow, especially across the globe.

Lisa Mink, executive director, global diversity andinclusion, brings her understanding of why it’s criticalfor IT companies to help build the pipeline as early ashigh school and college and to create inclusive envi-ronments that foster collaboration and innovation.“The concept of diversity is really aboutorganizational effectiveness—how do we bring teammembers together whoall have differences,